How The Hell Is This My Fault? — You've doubtless heard about the Airbnb fiasco - being dubbed #ransackgate by some - that's been exploding the last couple of days. If you're not familiar with the story, we first covered it here, and there's some terrific source material from the woman who's home …

A Brief History of Apple Not Buying Things — And so it begins again. BGR has an exclusive scoop from an “unproven” (ooh!) source: Apple is in talks to buy Barnes & Noble, the country's last remaining national bookseller. As BGR points out, the acquisition would get Apple B&N's digital books …

Report: Nortel portfolio buyers facing DOJ scrutiny — Despite last month's $4.5 billion sale of Nortel's patent portfolio wrapping up this week, government scrutiny over what its buyers intend to do with the patents continues, a new report says. — The Wall Street Journal reports …

AT&T's sleek Samsung slider isn't the Galaxy S II after all — Last week, we exclusively reported that AT&T was planning to launch a variant of Samsung's Galaxy S II with a full QWERTY keyboard. Well, we have good news and bad news: BGR learned on Friday from a trusted source that this handset …

Emacs has been violating the GPL since 2009 — An embarrassing mishap at the Free Software Foundation has seen the Emacs editor become GPL-violating software. In the process of merging CEDET into Emacs 24, it was noted that a number of compiled CEDET parsers were missing their associated grammar files and parser generators.

Senator supports online sales tax reform — (Reuters) - Cash-strapped states seeking to collect billions in taxes from online transactions gained an ally in Washington on Friday when a senator introduced a bill for a federal solution to the problem. — Struggling with weak economies …